Woman ha­rassed for a year by ‘ex-boyfriend’

A man ha­rassed a woman in Xi’an for nearly a year, claim­ing that she was his ex-girl­friend. Xiao Yu (as­sumed name), 30, is mar­ried and has a 9-year-old son. In au­tumn last year, she was tak­ing her son to school when she was ap­proached by a man, who called her a strange name, told her she was his ex-girl­friend and tried to kiss her. Since then, the man has stalked her and even walked around yelling her name in the res­i­den­tial com­mu­nity where she lives. The man found Xiao Yu’s mo­bile phone num­ber on her car and started ha­rass­ing her via text mes­sages. Xiao Yu called lo­cal po­lice sev­eral times to ask for help, but they sim­ply ad­vised her to ask the man’s fam­ily to take him for a men­tal health eval­u­a­tion.